@spendius,
I wrote: Spendius: You're a fundamentalist presciptivist.
Quote:missing word: You're a fundamentalist presciptivist.
Quote:I never said I wasn't. I would never write "gotten" instead of "have" because it requires one letter extra effort.
What has this babbling got to do with anything, save for you parading what everyone already knows is your abysmal ignorance on language?
That wasn't the issue at all. You are so patently dishonest, Spendi.
You saw the quote and you deleted "Spendius", why?, to divert attention away from just how out to lunch you were in your false accusations against me.
Have I mentioned just how patently dishonest you are, Spendi?
Quote:Your tautology is wasted words.
Caught yourself again. Why all your "wasted words" to highlight as you have, just how ignorant and dishonest you were.
But 'wasted words' are your stock in trade. You think that bafflegab can disguise your stupidity when it only serves to accentuate it.
jtt:
Quote:It was McTag's ignorance, either in the pejorative sense of the word or not, that caused this problem.
Quote:What problem? My Shorter Oxford does not have "miniscule" in it. And it must weigh 10 lbs. So I don't suppose it's in the 20 volume version.
More babbling. You didn't address what I stated at all.
It's been established that
miniscule is an accepted variant, accepted, grudgingly, by McTag, even by you.
There was even an Oxford entry given that noted that, so why the hell are you advancing such an arrantly ridiculous supposition?
Why are you babbling on and on about nothing?
Because you are Spendius.
Note that CI, who you have accused many times of this same babbling, now sides with you. Birds of a feather?
Quote:I push things aside that I don't like.
You certainly do that, with all manner of crazy, disjointed meandering, with this specific meaning;
meander or meander on - to talk or write for a long time, changing subjects or ideas, so that people become bored or confused.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/meander#meander_7
Quote:In what way have I got my ignorance, an assertion, mixed up with Mac's ignorance, another assertion, when I use "miniscule".
You've just spent a long posting admitting to your ignorance and it's either this same ignorance or dishonesty that has you advancing this bit of lunacy, above.
How you could possibly come to the conclusion that it involves your use of
minuscule is beyond belief?
You do just meander, Spendi, saying anything and everything that you can inject that has little, or more your favorite, nothing to do with the topic at hand.